Fly-killer stay.



PATENTED FEB. 10, 1903.

v No. 720,334.

B. F. DOUGLASS. FLY KILLER STAY.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. DOUGLASS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FLY-KILLER STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,334, dated February 10, 1903.

Application filed March 22, 1901. Serial No. 52,463. (No model.)

device with the end of the handle broken.

away, and Fig. 2 is a central sectional View taken through the handle and remaining portion of the device.

0. represents the wire-gauze.

1 represents the binding.

0 represents the handle.

d represents the metal stay. This stay is made of thin sheet-steel or other metal and is folded onto the wire, covering the wiregauze on both sides alike. The handle is then slipped on over the stay and bradded securely to the stay and gauze. The stay is left free at its ends, so that when the killer is being used the wire-gauze will swing back and forth without breakingthe wire, as it does when a handle is put on without it.

As an article of manufacture, an insect-destroyer, comprising a rectangular wire end flap having" a reinforced border, a sheet of spring-plate bent upon itself and'adapted to slide'over the border of the flap so as tohave its ends upon opposite sides of the flap and extending a short distance inward from the border, and a handle having a bifurcated slot to engage the said metal plate but not extending upon each side of the plate the full length of the plate, said handle being so secured to the plate and the flap as to allow the flap and plate to flexibly swing upon opposite sides of the handle.

BENJAMIN F. DOUGLASS.

Witnesses:

N. W. FRIEDEWALD, GEO. NEvEs. 

